Test Automation
Automation pays off when it covers the flows you can't afford to break and your team trusts the results. We start small, with the checks that matter, keep them readable and stable, and hand them over so they keep running after we leave.
Start a projectProblems this finds
- Critical flows — sign-in, checkout, forms — that break without anyone noticing until users report it
- Slow manual regression before every release
- Existing automated tests that fail randomly, so nobody trusts them
- Tests that only their author can read or fix
In scope
- Choosing what to automate first, based on risk and how often a flow changes
- Browser end-to-end checks (we usually recommend Playwright) and API-level checks
- Stable test data and selectors, and screenshots or traces when a check fails
- Running the checks in your existing CI and documenting how to extend them
Not included
- Automating everything: some checks are cheaper and more reliable to keep manual
- Native mobile automation, unless agreed separately
- Ongoing maintenance after handover, unless agreed separately
How we work
We build automated checks your team can understand, run, and maintain — focused on the flows that matter most, integrated with your existing pipeline where possible.
- 1Identify high-value flows
- 2Agree on framework and conventions
- 3Build, review, and stabilise
- 4Hand over and document
What you receive
- Maintainable automated checks for your critical user flows
- Clear structure, naming, and documentation for your team
- Guidance on running checks in your CI pipeline
- A handover session and a recommended next-steps backlog
What this looks like in practice
The Learn QA lesson on a first Playwright test shows the style we aim for: one clear scenario, assertions a reviewer can read, and nothing the test doesn't need. For visual changes that are hard to assert in code, Release Compare puts two screenshots side by side with a difference view, in your browser.
Related Learn QA lessons
Free lessons from our QA Lab that explain the same ideas in more depth.
- QA in the development workflowWhere testing happens from requirements to release, and how acceptance criteria make features testable.
- Test levels and test typesUnit to acceptance, functional to non-functional, and what regression and smoke tests are for.
- What to automate, and how to keep it reliableChoosing checks with a good return, and avoiding flaky tests.
- A first Playwright testWrite and run an end-to-end test against the training shop on your own machine.